Republicans should be scorned

Re: “Scorned for being a Republican,” March 22 letter to the editor

A letter writer and public school teacher feigns discrimination and banishment for being a Republican without an opportunity to voice her own views because if her friends and colleagues knew she was one, it might ruin her relationship with them. She thinks it is hypocritical for progressives to write her off for her just being “labeled” a Republican, that “label” being no different than discrimination felt by those labeled “gay” or “gender fluid.” That’s rich, because her party discriminated against those two groups and more.

Whining about not having a voice among liberal cohorts is becoming the new complaint among Republicans, because their support of this president is rightly viewed as an immorality trying to disguise itself as political virtue. I know right from wrong, and the simple fact is I’m sure the letter writer does too. But if you support a president who can’t tell the truth, ignores facts like they are a plague, marshals his power in office to enrich himself and his family and ignores the plight of anyone who is not of his ilk, then naturally you are going to feel the heat from people around you who know the truth.

I have Republican friends and have learned from them by the lives they live. They do the same from me. But they value the truth, and see what the party values have become.

Susan Altenhofen,